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Wspólnota jako ontologia – koncepcja Jean-Luca Nancy’ego
Community as Ontology according to Jean-Luc Nancy

Author(s): Błażej Baszczak
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Jean-Luc Nancy; community; ontology; finitude; “literary communism"

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the question of community in Jean-Luc Nancy’s work La communauté désœuvrée (1983). Nancy’s writings on community are one of the most well known part of his work. That is why firstly that essay shows how Nancy redefined community and moved away from this word toward explicitly ontological terms such as being-in-common, being-together and being-with. Then we take up Nancy’s discussions of the relation between myth and community: between the interruption of myth, the unworked community (la communauté désœuvrée), and “literary com- munism.” And, eventually, at the end we take a closer look at the relation between Nancy’s understanding of community and history in general to show what Nancy means by finitude.

  • Issue Year: 62/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 75-96
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish